Publications

Research Publications

A. Peer-reviewed scientific articles
  1. 🆕Sarkar, R., Pomoell, J., Kilpua, E., Asvestari, E. (2026) Integration of a CME Flux Rope Model with Magnetic Field Draping in Heliospheric Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal (accepted)
  2. 🆕Green, M. L., Baresi, N., Morgan, H., Gunn, M., Caspi, A, Seaton, B. D., Del Zanna, G., Rivera, J. Y., Bailen, F. J. ; Orozco Suarez, D., Yeates, R. A., Wyper, P., Ngampoopun, N., Alzate, N., Di Matteo, S., Palmerio, E., Morton, J. R., Asvestari, E., Temmer, M., Cappello, G., Mihailescu, T., Battams, K. (2026) UK White Paper on Space-based total solar eclipse observations: structure and dynamics of the solar atmosphere. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2606.05244
  3. 🆕Temmer, M., Heinemann, S. G.; Dresing, N.; Dumbovic, M.; Asvestari, E. (2026) Coronal Mass Ejection and Heliospheric Current Sheet Interaction Causing a Long-duration Magnetic Field Sector Transition. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 1004, Issue 2. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae6dab
  4. 🆕 Barnes, D., Palmerio, E., Amerstorfer, T., Asvestari, E., Barnard, L., Bauer, M., Čalogović, J., Cappello, G. M., Hess, P., Kay, C. (2026) Polarimetric tomography applied to synthetic multi-spacecraft white-light images: observing coronal mass ejections in 3D. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 548, Issue 4. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stag818
  5. Milošić, D., Temmer, M., Heinemann, S. G., Hofmeister, S., Asvestari, E. (2025) Case study on the evolution of corotating interaction regions for the “smiley coronal holes”: 0.3 to 1 AU. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 699, A267. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202453096
  6. Heinemann, S. G., Yang, D., Jones, S. I., Pomoell, J., Asvestari, E., Henney, C. J., Arge, C. N., Gizon, L. (2025) Evaluating solar wind forecast using magnetic maps that include helioseismic far-side information, Solar Physics, Volume 300, Issue 11, id.153. doi: 10.1007/s11207-025-02563-4
  7. Hofmeister, S. J., Asvestari, E., Dissauer, K., Hahn, M.,; Heinemann, S. G., Jercic, V., Koukras, A., Krikova, K., Saqri, J., Savin, D. W., Temmer, M., Veronig, A. (2025) Formation of a Coronal Hole by a quiet-Sun Filament Eruption, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 994, Issue 2. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae11b0
  8. Dresing, N.; Jebaraj, I. C.; Wijsen, N.; Palmerio, E.; Rodríguez-García, L.; Palmroos, C.; Gieseler, J.; Jarry, M.; Asvestari, E.; Mitchell, J. G.; Cohen, C. M. S.; Lee, C. O.; Wei, W.; Ramstad, R.; Riihonen, E.; Oleynik, P.; Kouloumvakos, A.; Warmuth, A.; Sánchez-Cano, B.; Ehresmann, B.; Dunn, P.; Dudnik, O.; Mac Cormack, C. (2025). The reason for the widespread energetic storm particle event of 13 March 2023. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 695, A127. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202453596
  9. Mishev, A., Larsen, N., Asvestari, E., Sáiz, A., Shea, M. A., Strauss, D. T., Ruffolo, D., Banglieng, C., Seunarine, S., Duldig, M. L., Gil, A., Blanco, J. J., García-Población, O., Cervino-Solana, P., Adams, J. H. Jr., Usoskin, I. (2024) Anisotropic Forbush decrease of 24 March 2024: First look, Advances in Space Research, 74, 8, 4160-4172, doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2024.08.027
  10. Rodriguez, L., Shukhobodskaia, D., Niemela, A., Maharana, A., Samara, E., Verbeke, C., Magdalenic, J., Vansintjan, R., Mierla, M., Scolini, C., Sarkar, R., Kilpua, E., Asvestari, E., Herbst, K., Lapenta, G., Chaduteau, A. D., Pomoell, J., Poedts, S., (2024) Validation of EUHFORIA cone and spheromak Coronal Mass Ejection Models, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 689, A187, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449530
  11. Martinić, K.*, Asvestari, E.*, Dumbović, M., Rindlisbacher, T., Temmer, M., Vršnak, B. (2024) Probing coronal mass ejections inclination effects with EUHFORIA, The Astrophysical Journal,  974, 203, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad7392 – *Shared first-authorship
  12. Asvestari, E., Temmer, M., Caplan, R. M., Linker, J. A., Heinemann, S. G., Pinto, R. F., Henney, C. J., Arge, C. N., Owens, M. J., Madjarska, M. S., Pomoell, J., Hofmeister, S. J., Scolini, C., Samara, E. (2024) Coronal Models and Detection of the Open Magnetic Field, The Astrophysical Journal, 971 45, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad5155
  13. Gil, A., Asvestari, E., Mishev, A., Larsen, N., Usoskin, I. (2024) New Anisotropic Cosmic-Ray Enhancement (ACRE) Event on 5 November 2023 Due to Complex Heliospheric Conditions, Solar Physics, 299, 97, doi:10.1007/s11207-024-02338-3
  14. Dresing, N., Yli-Laurila, A., Valkila, S., Gieseler, J., Morosan, D. E., Farwa, G. U., Kartavykh, Y., Palmroos, C., Jebaraj, I., Jensen, S., Kühl, P., Heber, B., Espinosa, F., Gomez-Herrero, R., Kilpua, E., Linho, V. V., Oleynik, P., Hayes, L. A., Warmuth, A., Schuller, F., Collier, H., Xiao, H., Asvestari, E., Trotta, D., Mitchell, J. G., Cohen, C. M. S., Labrador, A. W., Hill, M. E., Vainio, R. (2024) The solar cycle 25 multi-spacecraft solar energetic particle event catalog of the SERPENTINE project, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 687, A72, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449831
  15. Owens, M.J., Barnard, L.A., Muscheler, R., Konstantin, H., Lockwood, M., Usoskin, I., Asvestari, E., (2024) A Geomagnetic Estimate of Heliospheric Modulation Potential over the Last 175 Years. Solar Physics 299, 84 doi:10.1007/s11207-024-02316-9
  16. Heinemann, S. G., Owens, M. J., Temmer, M., Turtle, J. A., Arge, C. N., Henney, C. J., Pomoell, J., Asvestari, E., Linker, J. A., Downs, C., Caplan, R. M., Hofmeister, S. J., Scolini, C., Pinto, R. F., and Madjarska M. S. (2024) On the Origin of the Sudden Heliospheric Open Magnetic Flux Enhancement During the 2014 Pole Reversal, The Astrophysical Journal, 965 151, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad2b69
  17. Sarkar, R., Pomoell, J., Kilpua, E., Asvestari, E., Wijsen, N., Maharana, A., and Poedts, S. (2024) Studying the Spheromak Rotation in Data-constrained Coronal Mass Ejection Modeling with EUHFORIA and Assessing Its Effect on the Bz Prediction, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement series, 270, 18. doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ad0df4
  18. Morosan, D. E., Pomoell, J., Palmroos, C., Dresing, N., Asvestari, E., Vainio, R., Kilpua, E. K. J., Gieseler, J., Kumari, A., and Jebaraj, I. C. (2024) Connecting remote and in situ observations of shock-accelerated electrons associated with a coronal mass ejection, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 683, A31. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202347873
  19. Heinemann, S. G., Hofmeister, S. J., Turtle, J. A., Pomoell, J. ; Asvestari, E. ; Sterling, A. C. ; Diercke, A. ; Downs, C. (2023) On the short term stability and tilting motion of a well-observed low-latitude solar coronal hole, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 679, A100, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202347180
  20. Dresing, N., Rodríguez-García, L., Jebaraj, I. C., Warmuth, A., Wallace, S., Balmaceda, L., Podladchikova, T., Strauss, R. D., Kouloumvakos, A., Palmroos, C., Krupar, V., Gieseler, J., Xu, Z., Mitchell, J. G., Cohen, C. M. S., de Nolfo, G. A., Palmerio, E., Carcaboso, F., Kilpua, E. K. J., Trotta, D., Auster, U., Asvestari, E., da Silva, D., Dröge, W., Getachew, T., Gómez-Herrero, R., Grande, M., Heyner, D., Holmström, M., Huovelin, J., Kartavykh, Y., Laurenza, M., Lee, C. O., Mason, G., Maksimovic, M., Mieth, J., Murakami, G., Oleynik, P., Pinto, M., Pulupa, M., Richter, I., Rodríguez-Pacheco, J., Sánchez-Cano, B., Schuller, F., Ueno, H., Vainio, R., Vecchio, A., Veronig, A. M., Wijsen, N. (2023) The 17 April 2021 widespread solar energetic particle event, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 674, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202345938
  21. Palmroos C., Gieseler J., Dresing N., Morosan D. E., Asvestari E., Yli-Laurila A., Price D. J., Valkila S., Vainio R. (2022) Solar Energetic Particle Time Series Analysis with Python, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, Volume 9, id.395, doi:10.3389/fspas.2022.1073578
  22. Owens, M., Barnard, L., Pope, B, Lockwood, M., Usoskin, I., Asvestari, E. (2022) Solar Energetic Particle Ground-Level Enhancements and the Solar Cycle, Solar Physics, Volume 297, Issue 8, article id.105, doi:10.1007/s11207-022-02037-x
  23. Pal, S., Lynch, B. J., Good, S. W., Palmerio, E., Asvestari, E, Pomoell, J., Stevens, M. L., Kilpua, E. K. J. (2022). Eruption and Interplanetary Evolution of a Stealthy Streamer-Blowout CME Observed by PSP at ∼0.5 AU, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, vol. 9, id. 903676, doi: 10.3389/fspas.2022.903676
  24. Asvestari, E., Rindlisbacher, T., Pomoell, J., & Kilpua, E. K. J. (2022). The spheromak tilting and how it affects modelling coronal mass ejections. Astrophysical Journal, 926:87, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac3a73
  25. Hofmeister, S. J., Asvestari, E., Guo, J., Heidrich-Meisner, V., Heinemann, S. G., Magdalenic, J., . . .Wimmer-Schweingruber, R. (2022). How the area of solar coronal holes affects the properties of high-speed solar wind streams near Earth. I. An analytical model. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 659, A190, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141919
  26. Sindhuja, G., Singh, J., Asvestari, E., & Raghavendra Prasad, B. (2022). Modelling a coronal mass ejection as a magnetised structure with EUHFORIA. The Astrophysical Journal, 925, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac3bd2
  27. Wagner, A., Asvestari, E., Temmer, M., Heinemann, S. G., & Pomoell, J. (2022). Validation scheme for solar coronal models – constraints from multi-perspective observations in EUV and white-light. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 657, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141552
  28. Kilpua, E. K. J., Good, S. W., Dresing, N., Vainio, R., Davies, E. E., Forsyth, R. J., Gieseler, J., Lavraud, B., Asvestari, E., Morosan, D. E., Pomoell, J., Price, D. J., Heyner, D., Horbury, T. S., Angelini, V., O’Brien, H., Evans, V., Rodriguez-Pacheco, J., Gómez Herrero, R., Ho, G. C., Wimmer-Schweingruber, R. (2021) Multi-spacecraft observations of the structure of the sheath of an interplanetary coronal mass ejection and related energetic ion enhancement. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 656. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202140838
  29. Kollhoff, A., Kouloumvakos, A., Lario, D., Dresing, N., Gómez-Herrero, R., Rodrıguez-Garcıa, L., . . .Asvestari, E. (2021). The first widespread solar energetic particle event observed by solar orbiter on 2020 november 29. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 656, A20. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202140937
  30. Linker, J. A., Heinemann, S. G., Temmer, M., Owens, M. J., Caplan, R. M., Arge, C. N., Asvestari, E., Delouille, V., Downs, C., Hofmeister, S. J., Jebaraj, I. C., Madjarska, M. S., Pinto, R. F., Pomoell, J., Samara, E., Scolini, C., & Vršnak, B. (2021). Coronal Hole Detection and Open Magnetic Flux. The Astrophysical Journal, 918(1), 21. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac090a
  31. Asvestari, E., Pomoell, J., Kilpua, E., Good, S., Chatzistergos, T., Temmer, M., . . . Magdalenic, J. (2021). Modelling a multi-spacecraft coronal mass ejection encounter with EUHFORIA. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 652, A27. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202140315
  32. Kilpua, E. K. J., Pomoell, J., Price, D., Sarkar, R., & Asvestari, E. (2021). Estimating the magnetic structure of an erupting CME flux rope from AR12158 using data-driven modelling. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 8, 35. doi:10.3389/fspas.2021.631582
  33. Temmer, M., Holzknecht, L., Dumbović, M., Vršnak, B., Sachdeva, N., Heinemann, S. G., Dissauer, K., Scolini, C., Asvestari, E., Veronig, A. M., Hofmeister, S. J. (2021). Deriving CME Density From Remote Sensing Data and Comparison to In Situ Measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 126(1), e28380. doi:10.1029/2020JA028380
  34. Hinterreiter, J., Magdalenic, J., Temmer, M., Verbeke, C., Jebaraj, I. C., Samara, E., Asvestari, E., Poedts, S., Pomoell, J., Kilpua, E., Rodriguez, L., Scolini, C., Isavnin, A. (2019). Assessing the Performance of EUHFORIA Modeling the Background Solar Wind. Solar Physics, 294(12), 170. doi:10.1007/s11207-019-1558-8
  35. Asvestari, E., Heinemann, S. G., Temmer, M., Pomoell, J., Kilpua, E., Magdalenic, J., & Poedts, S. (2019). Reconstructing Coronal Hole Areas With EUHFORIA and Adapted WSA Model: Optimizing the Model Parameters. Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 124(11), 8280–8297. doi:10.1029/2019JA027173
  36. Kilpua, E. K. J., Good, S. W., Palmerio, E., Asvestari, E., Lumme, E., Ala-Lahti, M., Kalliokoski, M. M.H., Morosan, D. E., Pomoell, J., Price, D. J. and Magdalenic, J., Poedts, S., Futaana, Y., (2019). Multipoint Observations of the June 2012 Interacting Interplanetary Flux Ropes. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 6, 50. doi:10.3389/fspas.2019.00050
  37. Palmroth, M., Praks, J., Vainio, R., Janhunen, P., Kilpua, E. K. J., Afanasiev, A., Ala-Lahti, M., Alho, A., Asikainen, T., Asvestari, E., . . . Westerlund, T. (2019). FORESAIL-1 CubeSat Mission to Measure Radiation Belt Losses and Demonstrate Deorbiting. Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 124(7), 5783–5799. doi:10.1029/2018JA026354
  38. Asvestari, E., Gil, A., Kovaltsov, G. A., & Usoskin, I. G. (2017). Neutron Monitors and Cosmogenic Isotopes as Cosmic Ray Energy-Integration Detectors: Effective Yield Functions, Effective Energy, and Its Dependence on the Local Interstellar Spectrum. Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 122(10), 9790–9802. doi:10.1002/2017JA024469
  39. Asvestari, E., Willamo, T., Gil, A., Usoskin, I. G., Kovaltsov, G. A., Mikhailov, V. V., & Mayorov, A.(2017). Analysis of Ground Level Enhancements (GLE): Extreme solar energetic particle events have hard spectra. Advances in Space Research, 60(4), 781–787. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2016.08.043
  40. Asvestari, E., Usoskin, I. G., Kovaltsov, G. A., Owens, M. J., Krivova, N. A., Rubinetti, S., & Taricco, C. (2017). Assessment of different sunspot number series using the cosmogenic isotope 44Ti in meteorites. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 467(2), 1608–1613. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx190
  41. Sukhodolov, T., Usoskin, I., Rozanov, E., Asvestari, E., Ball, W. T., Curran, M. A. J., . . . Traversi, R. (2017). Atmospheric impacts of the strongest known solar particle storm of 775 AD. Scientific Reports, 7, 45257. doi:10.1038/srep45257
  42. Asvestari, E., & Usoskin, I. G. (2016). An empirical model of heliospheric cosmic ray modulation on long-term time scale. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 6, A15. doi:10.1051/swsc/2016011
  43. Usoskin, I. G., Arlt, R., Asvestari, E., Hawkins, E., Käpylä, M., Kovaltsov, G. A., . . . Vaquero, J. M.(2015). The Maunder minimum (1645-1715) was indeed a grand minimum: A reassessment of multiple datasets. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 581, A95. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201526652
B. Non-refereed scientific articles
  1. Asvestari, E., Heinemann, S. G., Temmer, M., Pomoell, J., Kilpua, E., Magdalenic, J., & Poedts, S. (2020). The impact of coronal hole characteristics and solar cycle activity in reconstructing coronal holes with EUHFORIA. In Journal of physics conference series (Vol. 1548, p. 012004). doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1548/1/012004
  2. Gil, A., Asvestari, E., Kovaltsov, G., & Usoskin, I. (2017). Heliospheric modulation of galactic cosmic rays: Effective energy of ground-based detectors. In 35th international cosmic ray conference (icrc2017) (Vol. 301, p. 32).
  3. Usoskin, I., Asvestari, E., Willamo, T., Gil, A., Kovaltsov, G., Mikhailov, V., & Mayorov, A. (2017). Analysis of Ground-Level Enhancements: Strong events are hard. In 35th international cosmic ray conference (icrc2017) (Vol. 301, p. 126).
  4. Asvestari, E., Usoskin, I. G., Cameron, R. H., & Krivova, N. A. (2016). Semi-empirical Long-term Reconstruction of the Heliospheric Parameters: Validation by Cosmogenic Radionuclide Records. In I. Dorotovic, C. E. Fischer, & M. Temmer (Eds.), Coimbra solar physics meeting: Ground-based solar observations in the space instrumentation era (Vol. 504, p. 269).
  5. Usoskin, I., Arlt, R., Asvestari, E., Kovaltsov, G., Krivova, N., Lockwood, M., . . . Scott, C. (2015). The Maunder minimum: A reassessment from multiple dataset. In Iau general assembly (Vol. 29, p. 2253036).
  6. Asvestari, E., Usoskin, I., & Kovaltsov, G. (2015). Use of cosmogenic radionuclides 14C and 10Be to verify empirically reconstructed cosmic ray modulation since 1616. In 34th international cosmic ray conference (icrc2015) (Vol. 34, p. 53).
  7. Papaioannou, A., Belov, A., Mavromichalaki, H., Eroshenko, E., Yanke, V., Asvestari, E., . . . Abunina, M. (2013). The first Forbush decrease of solar cycle 24. In Journal of physics conference series (Vol. 409,
    p. 012202). doi:10.1088/1742-6596/409/1/012202
  8. Gerontidou, M., Mavromichalaki, H., Asvestari, E., Belov, A., & Kurt, V. (2010). Fluctuations of CMEs Characteristics During the Declining Phase of the Last Solar Cycle. In K. Tsinganos, D. Hatzidimitriou, & T. Matsakos (Eds.), 9th international conference of the hellenic astronomical society (Vol. 424, p. 37).
  9. Gerontidou, M., Mavromichalaki, H., Asvestari, E., Papailiou, M., Belov, A., & Kurt, V. (2010). Variations of CMEs Properties during the Different Phases of the Solar Cycle 23. In A. Angelopoulos & T. Fildisis (Eds.), 7th international conference of the balkan physical union organized by the hellenic physical society with the cooperation of the physics departments of greek universities (Vol. 1203, pp. 115–121). doi:10.1063/1.3322330
C. Thesis
  1. Asvestari, E. (2016). Imprints of long term solar variability on cosmic rays and terrestrial archives. REPORT SERIES IN PHYSICAL SCIENCES, Report No. 108, 201. (PhD thesis)